After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. After the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was drowning in debt. To pay it off, it sold Native land it didn’t control. This is the story of how a ...
Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” As we approach the 250th anniversary of the ...
In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...
The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans stood on the banks of the Hudson River in the autumn of 1777, armed with flintlock muskets and a fierce loyalty to a cause that wasn’t theirs. The tribe, whose ...
The documentary Idaho’s Forgotten War chronicles Native American activist’s Amy Trice’s 1974 declaration of war on the U.S. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Idaho's Forgotten War The 1970s were a time of both ...
One of the best-known images relating to England’s fledgling American colonies depicts an episode that ended in the massacre of hundreds of indigenous men, women and children. Adopting a bird’s-eye ...
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